Now, the Kingsway-based trust is looking to appoint a new chair. It is advertising the position on the jobs website Fish4Jobs.

He or she will help run the £130 million-a -year organisation, which looks after people with mental health issues or problems and employs over 2,400 staff based in over 60 locations.

The trust is looking for a new chair who will work two to three days a week and promote the "highest standards of integrity, probity and corporate governance" and requires someone who has board-level or non-executive experienced within an organisation or similar scale, ideally from within the NHS.

Former Derbyshire Healthcare chairman Alan Baines was ruled by a tribunal to have sexually harassed and bullied former HR director Helen Marks (Image: Derby Telegraph)

Last year, the Derby Telegraph revealed the trust had to pay out £1.4 million of taxpayers' cash after a former chairman, Alan Baines, was ruled by a tribunal to have sexually harassed and bullied former HR director Helen Marks. Mrs Marks was awarded more than £800,000 compensation after she took the trust to an employment tribunal and won. Derbyshire Healthcare spent more than £400,000 on legal fees in connection with the case.

And, former chief executive Steve Trenchard was also caught up in the scandal. The same tribunal judgement ruled he "colluded" with Mr Baines to dismiss Mrs Marks. He received £90,000 in wages while suspended and was handed a pay-off of £75,000 before he quit.

Then later, leadership and safeguarding policies were among the problems highlighted at trust by both the Care Quality Commission and Monitor, an organisation set up to maintain healthcare standards.

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NHS Improvement, the successor to Monitor, has now reported that the trust has made significant progress and it has issued it a certificate of compliance. That means the watchdog no longer has any significant concerns with the trust.

Now the new chairman will hope to make further progress.

The job application said: "Financially stable, we are committed to continued service transformation and collaborative working, creating a progressive organisation that puts the patient at the centre of everything that we do. Our philosophy of ‘Better Together' reflects our ethos of collaborative working, with our service users, carers, partners and staff to collectively improve health and wellbeing.

"As chair you will promote the highest standards of integrity, probity and corporate governance, ensuring that quality, finance and operational demands are held in balance. You will have an extensive track record of transformation and organisational change, strategic and collaborative working and feel comfortable bringing influence to bear to the benefit of patients and staff.

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"Above all we expect to appoint a chair who can demonstrate commitment to our values - always putting patients at the centre of everything we do, providing respectful and responsive care, working with integrity, honesty and trust to deliver effective and efficient services.

"We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group. However, as members of protected characteristic groups are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of these groups. Appointment will be based on merit alone."